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Another one from my archives. This is FeeWaybill (old Fee) and his daughter Coco, from Weasel and Fee's first litter of pups. They are modeling winter attire made with the shed hair of our Akita-Husky-Shepherd mix named Malik. They are all gone now and remembered with joy and fondness for who they were, each very unique, special and individual in their own way. (okay that sentence is a bit redundant.) Let me put it this way, we loved them dearly.

It's a snapshot, I have not edited it, I wish I didn't cut their feet off, I don't remember the camera, Fee was 15, Coco 13. She died very shortly after, suddenly. I'm glad I have this crappy picture of them together.

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Our dear sweet silly Coco. May 14, 1992 - May 11 2005.
We'll always recall her with great fondness. Little Puff-puff.

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Biscuit behind.
I've described Coco before, suffice to say a delightful little Puffer-dog.
Polaroid OneStep with 600 Platinum film.

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Coco was in just about everyway the opposite of Luka. Luka was probably more like her mom, serious, driven. Where Coco more resembled Fee in temperment. Carefree, a bit silly. Physically too she was very different, her conformation was not great and her legs were kind of short. But we kept her primarily because Chance had sent her to the vet at about 6 weeks of age with a bite to her snout.

What Coco lacked in sled dog form she made up for in heart. She had the total heart of a sled dog, loved to run in team and had to work harder than most everyone else. Her head was totally into it, but those short legs....

Coco was very endearing and delightfully entertaining and she was another that accumulated many nicknames; Coco-puff, Puff-puff, Puffer, Puffball, Pufferbelly, Low-rider, Chunk, Little Potato... you get the idea.

She died in 2005 at 13 years, cancer of the spleen.

And yes, Weasel is pregnant again in this photo.

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Camping with dogs ca. 1998.
(I've been looking at a lot of older photos lately)

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